Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

President Donald Trump has already had an impact on South African politics even before his key Africa positions have been ...

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is defending oil exploration near the mouth of the Amazon River as a way to ...

Before independence in 1990, Mr. Nujoma directed a Cold War-era insurgency against South African control of the mineral-rich ...

An uneasy calm held Sunday on the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern front after regional powers dreading a wider war ...

Switzerland’s top criminal court on Friday convicted a multinational company for the first time, ruling against commodities trader Trafigura in a case of bribery linked to ...

Although the USA and USSR did not conduct tests in the Sahara, the prolific nature of their nuclear tests during the Cold War left a widespread radioactive imprint detectable even in Saharan dust.

Switzerland's highest court has convicted the commodities trading giant Trafigura and one of its senior executives of bribery over payments made by the firm to gain access to Angola's lucrative ...

The researchers then collected all this data again during the cold spell and again a few months after it ended. During the cold wave, the biomass and activity of all insects fell sharply.

US Secretary of State and blood-stained Cold War warrior, was bent on the destruction of the MPLA, until he became aware of the value of the country's oil resources some months later. (p.165) Having ...